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On July 19 2012 12:31 Foolishness wrote:
Bill Murray!
Think to yourself: is Bill Murray actually Bill Murray this game? It's an easy enough question to answer: no. Because he is mafia. The items that characterize Bill Murray's usual town play are absent from this game. Consequently, it is easy to see that this game matches his mafia behavior.
The running joke on the forum about Bill Murray's alignment is that the more chaos he causes the more likely he is to be town. This has been seen over time as in the far past the games he broke the rules in he was usually town. Even today it is true, he is just much more mature about his posts.
Simply put: Bill Murray is much more spammy in games where he is town. This should make sense; everyone in this game has played with Bill Murray as far as I can see. Recently in Holy Roman where Bill Murray was town, he busted out four pages of posts within the first day alone. In two games where Bill Murray is mafia, Mafia LIII and Mafia LVI, by the end of day 1 he had less than two pages worth of posts (LVI he had about 1, LIII had about 1.5). How many pages of posts does Bill Murray have this game at the end of day 1? Less than 1 page, and closer to half a page than a page.
This may seem a bit out there, but it's certainly significant. When Bill Murray is town he posts twice as much as he does when he's mafia. That's a very noticable difference, especially for Bill Murray who can be very spammy. You shouldn't even have to check his filter to know that he had less than 1 page in his filter by the end of day 1. I know there was a point day 1 where someone made a post like, "wtf Bill Murray is in this game?". Bill Murray loves to ride the inactive train to mafia victory.
Before we do some more comparison to other games, take a look at what Bill Murray has accomplished this game. Needless to say he has been all over the place. This is not uncommon of Bill Murray nor does it strongly indicate his alignment. But his best post this game is probably the one he made against me:
The issue here isn't about what's being said but about when it was said. He is essentially just restating arguments that were already laid out in full by wherebugsgo, syllogism, and sandroba. Bill Murray came late to the game. Has he provided something to the town that's genuine and fresh? No. He waits to see what the town thinks before trying to weigh in a contribution.
But that aside what other posts has Bill Murray made that are of interest this game? One of my favorites is:
We all know apathy is a trait many mafia possess.
Outside of that, it was interesting to watch him go from wanting to kill Chezinu without a second thought:
To thinking he is town the next day:
Outside of all this there's nothing you can say about him. He's done nothing. He said gonzaw was making excuses but never said anything more. He's made a troll post or two. He's defended himself in the typical Bill Murray style (which he does both as town and mafia). He has not helped the town nor has he made any real effort other than jumping the bandwagon on myself.
What's missing from his filter that should be there? Bill Murray when he is town always tries to help in one way or another. The typical way is by calling people out on their bullshit, Bill Murray style. But that hasn't happened this game. In games where he is town Bill Murray always makes long posts in between his one liners and ever-increasing troll posts. For example take this post from Holy Roman mafia (he was town). I spoilered it cause it's long:
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The important part is how he explained his thought process on Acrofales. Note how direct he is in saying what he thinks and how he's actively trying to figure things out. This is the town Bill Murray. We all know that he loves the game and is quite competitive, so posts like these fit right in with what you would expect out of him. When he's mafia, posts like these are absent from his filter. He doesn't actively speak his thoughts or convey his feelings. And that's exactly what he's doing this game as well.
He had other posts where he explained his thought process that game. One of them is very very long so I've omitted it (you'll find it if you look through his filter for that game. Remember he is town here). But you can always find the posts where he explains his reads. In this game it was in list form:
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Another good example of his town play is from Death Factory mafia. It's easy to scroll through and find posts that he makes where he explains his thoughts about other players in the game:
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And again you can find other long posts that are always present in his town play:
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If you look at his mafia games, in particular, Area LIII and LVI, you'll find these long posts are absent. For instance in LVI his longest post was a nice little:
Granted he did get shot night 1. In LIII his longest post was:
Which is nowhere near of the calibre that you see in his town games. Furthermore you can see in this accusation post (remember he is mafia this game) that he only accused MG after others had gone after him (he says so himself in this post). This is easy to see from his filter in that game because this is the first time he's ever talked about MG.
This is exactly what he's done this game. He doesn't make any mention of me, but once a handful of people say I'm mafia he immediately hops aboard the train trying to contribute. Exactly what he did as mafia in LIII with MidnightGladius.
Summary of why Bill Murray is mafia:
1) Overall inactivity. He hasn't done anything this game. Do any of the posts he's made stick out at you as memorable?
2) Spam level. He's had zero spam this game. There is a noticeable difference in his spamminess when he is town and mafia. This game it is consistent with his mafia play.
3) No long posts. When Bill Murray is town, he makes posts that are paragraphs long. When he is mafia he never does such a thing. This game he hasn't made a post longer than ~5 sentences.
4) Lack of thoughts or accusations. When he is town he is not afraid to call someone out or make a long (relative to him) accusation post. When he is mafia he is all aboard the sheep train. He even said in a post that he is sheeping and in another post that he thinks sheeping is good for the town.
Obviously have to take care of more pressing mafia first.
##Vote: Kurumi
Bill Murray!
Think to yourself: is Bill Murray actually Bill Murray this game? It's an easy enough question to answer: no. Because he is mafia. The items that characterize Bill Murray's usual town play are absent from this game. Consequently, it is easy to see that this game matches his mafia behavior.
The running joke on the forum about Bill Murray's alignment is that the more chaos he causes the more likely he is to be town. This has been seen over time as in the far past the games he broke the rules in he was usually town. Even today it is true, he is just much more mature about his posts.
Simply put: Bill Murray is much more spammy in games where he is town. This should make sense; everyone in this game has played with Bill Murray as far as I can see. Recently in Holy Roman where Bill Murray was town, he busted out four pages of posts within the first day alone. In two games where Bill Murray is mafia, Mafia LIII and Mafia LVI, by the end of day 1 he had less than two pages worth of posts (LVI he had about 1, LIII had about 1.5). How many pages of posts does Bill Murray have this game at the end of day 1? Less than 1 page, and closer to half a page than a page.
This may seem a bit out there, but it's certainly significant. When Bill Murray is town he posts twice as much as he does when he's mafia. That's a very noticable difference, especially for Bill Murray who can be very spammy. You shouldn't even have to check his filter to know that he had less than 1 page in his filter by the end of day 1. I know there was a point day 1 where someone made a post like, "wtf Bill Murray is in this game?". Bill Murray loves to ride the inactive train to mafia victory.
Before we do some more comparison to other games, take a look at what Bill Murray has accomplished this game. Needless to say he has been all over the place. This is not uncommon of Bill Murray nor does it strongly indicate his alignment. But his best post this game is probably the one he made against me:
The issue here isn't about what's being said but about when it was said. He is essentially just restating arguments that were already laid out in full by wherebugsgo, syllogism, and sandroba. Bill Murray came late to the game. Has he provided something to the town that's genuine and fresh? No. He waits to see what the town thinks before trying to weigh in a contribution.
But that aside what other posts has Bill Murray made that are of interest this game? One of my favorites is:
We all know apathy is a trait many mafia possess.
Outside of that, it was interesting to watch him go from wanting to kill Chezinu without a second thought:
To thinking he is town the next day:
Outside of all this there's nothing you can say about him. He's done nothing. He said gonzaw was making excuses but never said anything more. He's made a troll post or two. He's defended himself in the typical Bill Murray style (which he does both as town and mafia). He has not helped the town nor has he made any real effort other than jumping the bandwagon on myself.
What's missing from his filter that should be there? Bill Murray when he is town always tries to help in one way or another. The typical way is by calling people out on their bullshit, Bill Murray style. But that hasn't happened this game. In games where he is town Bill Murray always makes long posts in between his one liners and ever-increasing troll posts. For example take this post from Holy Roman mafia (he was town). I spoilered it cause it's long:
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On May 10 2012 21:20 Bill Murray wrote:
I'm going to man up on this one, because I honestly feel I need to
1) you are misguided town
2) you are in a position of power
therefore
you are misguided town in a position of power
therefore
you can fuck us over with an indecision... or hurt us... and oh, baby, don't hurt me
don't hurt me,
no more.
when you said "Your wall post is decent because it reveals a lot of information about you ", how does it do that?
You said that it doesn't reveal information about who I'm posting about, but you contradict that later when you say you agree with my scumhunting and reads
You say "As town, I must always be aware that someone playing scummy might still be a delusional town.", which is true, but it can work both ways. Someone who is not only acting pro-town, but acting pro-town as town, can be delusional town.
look at yourself
you're "all over the place" even in this one post, whereas I have not contradicted myself once in terms of how I feel about things. What people do, in terms of their actions, speak louder than their words.
Acrofales, I expected you to write me off as town due to my effort, but your obtuseness, your parroting of my point earlier, and your inability to address that has me questioning having sent your name in as emperor, and you being town. I'm honestly regretting it right now, and I should have gone with my first instinct. I'd have rather voted for that annoying cube than you right now.
Ok, why does scum have a good reason to shoot you? Because you were the only person making wall posts?
You said yourself you're active as both town and scum... how, then, does that confirm you at all? hint: it doesn't
It's definitely a good ability for scum to be able to blue snipe, even deductively, depending on who they flip
I'm glad Zelblade called Acrofales a noobie before I did
I was starting to feel like I'm just sleep deprived in having a village idiot read on him
Acrofales, you think people are voting you because of your walls?
They're not.
They're voting you because of your claim.
Unlike them, however, I don't stick to reads, and you definitely parroted me
Yeah. You made a good catch on that, possibly.
I actually speculated something about this, but I don't want to give away too much information. Ask me about it when I wake up.
marry carolus mafnus
I'm going to man up on this one, because I honestly feel I need to
1) you are misguided town
2) you are in a position of power
therefore
you are misguided town in a position of power
therefore
you can fuck us over with an indecision... or hurt us... and oh, baby, don't hurt me
don't hurt me,
no more.
when you said "Your wall post is decent because it reveals a lot of information about you ", how does it do that?
You said that it doesn't reveal information about who I'm posting about, but you contradict that later when you say you agree with my scumhunting and reads
You say "As town, I must always be aware that someone playing scummy might still be a delusional town.", which is true, but it can work both ways. Someone who is not only acting pro-town, but acting pro-town as town, can be delusional town.
look at yourself
you're "all over the place" even in this one post, whereas I have not contradicted myself once in terms of how I feel about things. What people do, in terms of their actions, speak louder than their words.
Acrofales, I expected you to write me off as town due to my effort, but your obtuseness, your parroting of my point earlier, and your inability to address that has me questioning having sent your name in as emperor, and you being town. I'm honestly regretting it right now, and I should have gone with my first instinct. I'd have rather voted for that annoying cube than you right now.
Ok, why does scum have a good reason to shoot you? Because you were the only person making wall posts?
You said yourself you're active as both town and scum... how, then, does that confirm you at all? hint: it doesn't
It's definitely a good ability for scum to be able to blue snipe, even deductively, depending on who they flip
I'm glad Zelblade called Acrofales a noobie before I did
I was starting to feel like I'm just sleep deprived in having a village idiot read on him
Acrofales, you think people are voting you because of your walls?
They're not.
They're voting you because of your claim.
Unlike them, however, I don't stick to reads, and you definitely parroted me
Yeah. You made a good catch on that, possibly.
I actually speculated something about this, but I don't want to give away too much information. Ask me about it when I wake up.
marry carolus mafnus
The important part is how he explained his thought process on Acrofales. Note how direct he is in saying what he thinks and how he's actively trying to figure things out. This is the town Bill Murray. We all know that he loves the game and is quite competitive, so posts like these fit right in with what you would expect out of him. When he's mafia, posts like these are absent from his filter. He doesn't actively speak his thoughts or convey his feelings. And that's exactly what he's doing this game as well.
He had other posts where he explained his thought process that game. One of them is very very long so I've omitted it (you'll find it if you look through his filter for that game. Remember he is town here). But you can always find the posts where he explains his reads. In this game it was in list form:
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On May 11 2012 07:46 Bill Murray wrote:
Alright. Acrofales may not be parroting me, and might be genuine still.
Considering he is going to be the Emperor, there is no point in gunning there
I am much more suspicious of OpZ/Carolus/Mattchew of the recent posters that I formerly had town reads on
People that were scummy that aren't as bad include Forumite, Drazerk, and MG
Mattchew - town
A.T.L.A.S. - town
P-Body - not touching with a 10 foot pole until someone will decode
Laika - lurking dog
Companion Cube - want to lynch if i dont see scumhunting; too focused on buddying
OpZ - scum via meta
Adam4167 - dont believe ive seen much from him, but ive seen him play as town before, so i should be ok
U - town
YES_THIS_IS_DOG - lurker/inactive
The_Bard - good taste in music, but other than that, very null
Carolus Magnus - scum
QuickSilver7 - town
Mr. Potatohead - lurking scum
Itouchyou - lurking town
Hassybaby - scum
Drazerk - town
Strongandbig - town
Vaderseven - v7 is in this game?
Quatol - lurker, one post saying they needed to read the thread
Bluelightz - town
Zelblade - town
Sinani206 - town
Kurumi - town
erandor - town
Acrofales - town
MajuGarzett - town
Forumite - town
Jitsu - town
bagmanager - scum
Bill Murray - town
so i have like 5-6 scum naturally... i am not 100%, but this is just general
Alright. Acrofales may not be parroting me, and might be genuine still.
Considering he is going to be the Emperor, there is no point in gunning there
I am much more suspicious of OpZ/Carolus/Mattchew of the recent posters that I formerly had town reads on
People that were scummy that aren't as bad include Forumite, Drazerk, and MG
Mattchew - town
A.T.L.A.S. - town
P-Body - not touching with a 10 foot pole until someone will decode
Laika - lurking dog
Companion Cube - want to lynch if i dont see scumhunting; too focused on buddying
OpZ - scum via meta
Adam4167 - dont believe ive seen much from him, but ive seen him play as town before, so i should be ok
U - town
YES_THIS_IS_DOG - lurker/inactive
The_Bard - good taste in music, but other than that, very null
Carolus Magnus - scum
QuickSilver7 - town
Mr. Potatohead - lurking scum
Itouchyou - lurking town
Hassybaby - scum
Drazerk - town
Strongandbig - town
Vaderseven - v7 is in this game?
Quatol - lurker, one post saying they needed to read the thread
Bluelightz - town
Zelblade - town
Sinani206 - town
Kurumi - town
erandor - town
Acrofales - town
MajuGarzett - town
Forumite - town
Jitsu - town
bagmanager - scum
Bill Murray - town
so i have like 5-6 scum naturally... i am not 100%, but this is just general
Another good example of his town play is from Death Factory mafia. It's easy to scroll through and find posts that he makes where he explains his thoughts about other players in the game:
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On April 04 2012 20:24 Bill Murray wrote:
Syllogism - I want to test Cephiro's hard-softclaim. He isn't outright claiming any investigative ability, whether, if he has it or not, it is multiple or single use, or anything, but his softclaim was as close to a guilty claim as I have seen in a long time. I don't want to not test that.
PRP - Like syllo, I feel like his interactions with WBG, and the way he responded to the Cephiro ordeal, is pretty damning. I am willing to lynch him off of associative tells, but I'd like to flip syllo first.
Tobon - Though he has been looking better, with his defense being "noone has made a case on me, therefore I can't be scum", and all the flak he has gotten, he has my eyebrows raised.
Bluelightz - I really wouldn't mind losing him, even if he is town. He is not a VI, I don't think, so I feel like he is playing dumb as scum. I am not sure, however, that he isn't a little kid that wanders, lost, into the middle of the movie theatre... but with an AK.
Syllogism - I want to test Cephiro's hard-softclaim. He isn't outright claiming any investigative ability, whether, if he has it or not, it is multiple or single use, or anything, but his softclaim was as close to a guilty claim as I have seen in a long time. I don't want to not test that.
PRP - Like syllo, I feel like his interactions with WBG, and the way he responded to the Cephiro ordeal, is pretty damning. I am willing to lynch him off of associative tells, but I'd like to flip syllo first.
Tobon - Though he has been looking better, with his defense being "noone has made a case on me, therefore I can't be scum", and all the flak he has gotten, he has my eyebrows raised.
Bluelightz - I really wouldn't mind losing him, even if he is town. He is not a VI, I don't think, so I feel like he is playing dumb as scum. I am not sure, however, that he isn't a little kid that wanders, lost, into the middle of the movie theatre... but with an AK.
And again you can find other long posts that are always present in his town play:
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On April 04 2012 20:37 Bill Murray wrote:
Either way we need to get the above four out of here. I would want to wait until the lights come back on, and I'm kind of scared to do anything due to VE dying...
If your interaction with syllo wasn't completely 100% scummy, I would feel like you were town WBG. I do have a leaned townread on you, but it's not 100% like I felt about Palmar, because you could potentially be throwing syllogism under the bus. I only say this because your questioning of him felt too good, to where it looked like an act. If you're really that good, and that was the building up, and prelude of a great case, bravo.
We haven't been using our PoPs correctly. Now, I'm not a dictator, as I'm not confirmed or anything like an innocent child (definitely not bluelightz lol), so I'm not going to boss people around in a "Soviet Russia make you push or pull like want" way, only sort of. We need to hold people accountable, loosen up, and ask people questions. Scum will eventually become illogical... it wears on you being scum. Here's to hoping so, at least.
reasons you should believe I'm town:
1) I actually want our next course of action to be to consolidate pushes or pulls around what Snarf wants to do, but I know the thread won't go for it, and would lash out against me, so I'm not touching it with a ten-foot-pole.
2) proposing someone else leads versus myself... kind of having second thoughts on that, though
3) personal meta of lack of night posting, whereas, as scum, i'd post in the night /wifom
Honestly, though, I can't really be sure snarfs is town...
1) Godfather
2) I could be naive
3) Snarfs has a Lawyer, possibly Qatol
4) I could be ... no, VE flipped town... I can't be insane... not in the game at least :D
...A role changing ability, or busdriver
only the first two are valid, where my ability was day use
However, I feel comfortable leading myself, if you all aren't satisfied listening to Snarfs.
I'm not saying to not scumhunt, and to turn into sheep. I'm just saying that people are really looking to be prone to wasting their pushes and pulls without any sense of order, which allows for scum to blend in, and that should be our first mission as a town to prevent
Either way we need to get the above four out of here. I would want to wait until the lights come back on, and I'm kind of scared to do anything due to VE dying...
If your interaction with syllo wasn't completely 100% scummy, I would feel like you were town WBG. I do have a leaned townread on you, but it's not 100% like I felt about Palmar, because you could potentially be throwing syllogism under the bus. I only say this because your questioning of him felt too good, to where it looked like an act. If you're really that good, and that was the building up, and prelude of a great case, bravo.
We haven't been using our PoPs correctly. Now, I'm not a dictator, as I'm not confirmed or anything like an innocent child (definitely not bluelightz lol), so I'm not going to boss people around in a "Soviet Russia make you push or pull like want" way, only sort of. We need to hold people accountable, loosen up, and ask people questions. Scum will eventually become illogical... it wears on you being scum. Here's to hoping so, at least.
reasons you should believe I'm town:
1) I actually want our next course of action to be to consolidate pushes or pulls around what Snarf wants to do, but I know the thread won't go for it, and would lash out against me, so I'm not touching it with a ten-foot-pole.
2) proposing someone else leads versus myself... kind of having second thoughts on that, though
3) personal meta of lack of night posting, whereas, as scum, i'd post in the night /wifom
Honestly, though, I can't really be sure snarfs is town...
1) Godfather
2) I could be naive
4) I could be ... no, VE flipped town... I can't be insane... not in the game at least :D
...A role changing ability, or busdriver
only the first two are valid, where my ability was day use
However, I feel comfortable leading myself, if you all aren't satisfied listening to Snarfs.
I'm not saying to not scumhunt, and to turn into sheep. I'm just saying that people are really looking to be prone to wasting their pushes and pulls without any sense of order, which allows for scum to blend in, and that should be our first mission as a town to prevent
If you look at his mafia games, in particular, Area LIII and LVI, you'll find these long posts are absent. For instance in LVI his longest post was a nice little:
Granted he did get shot night 1. In LIII his longest post was:
Which is nowhere near of the calibre that you see in his town games. Furthermore you can see in this accusation post (remember he is mafia this game) that he only accused MG after others had gone after him (he says so himself in this post). This is easy to see from his filter in that game because this is the first time he's ever talked about MG.
This is exactly what he's done this game. He doesn't make any mention of me, but once a handful of people say I'm mafia he immediately hops aboard the train trying to contribute. Exactly what he did as mafia in LIII with MidnightGladius.
Summary of why Bill Murray is mafia:
1) Overall inactivity. He hasn't done anything this game. Do any of the posts he's made stick out at you as memorable?
2) Spam level. He's had zero spam this game. There is a noticeable difference in his spamminess when he is town and mafia. This game it is consistent with his mafia play.
3) No long posts. When Bill Murray is town, he makes posts that are paragraphs long. When he is mafia he never does such a thing. This game he hasn't made a post longer than ~5 sentences.
4) Lack of thoughts or accusations. When he is town he is not afraid to call someone out or make a long (relative to him) accusation post. When he is mafia he is all aboard the sheep train. He even said in a post that he is sheeping and in another post that he thinks sheeping is good for the town.
Obviously have to take care of more pressing mafia first.
##Vote: Kurumi